Bertrand Tavernier, Thierry Fremaux, Jacques Becker. Famed director and screenwriter Bertrand Tavernier takes viewers through his favorite directors' best works. From the films that first inspired... more
Senegalese teenage cousins Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall) left Dakar on an ambitious odyssey to reach Italy and make a better life. The grueling cross-desert trek through Libya... more
Emmanuelle Beart, Michael Piccoli. His talent unused for years, a once-famous painter is inspired by a young woman to return to his craft. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Jacques... more
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles (Dany... more
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi. This powerful historical drama recounts the tale of the daughter of Queen Mother Catherine de Medici who has been forced to marry her... more
In early-'60s Paris, 13-year-old Anne Weber (Eléonore Klarwein) and her 15-year-old sister Frédérique (Odile Michel) had to navigate an academic year marked by indifferent teachers, first love,... more
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth*Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must... more
With her father having to stay in Paris, promiscuous teenager Chris (Valérie Kaprisky) was determined to find pleasure on a Saint-Tropez holiday with her mother Claude (Caroline Cellier). She set her... more
Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Preboist. A touching story unfolds when an 8-year-old Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied France, is sent by his mom and dad to live with the Catholic parents of their... more
Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye. When a 16th-century French peasant returns to his wife after years away at war, he has a much improved personality, leading everyone to think he is an imposter.... more
Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet. A young woman is sent from Paris to the provinces to work as a chambermaid for an abusive mistress and a lascivious master, all while pining after the... more
In postwar Lyon, former internee Lena Korski (Isabelle Huppert) had made a life and family with Michel (Guy Marchand), the compassionate Vichy guard who'd freed and fled with her. As she develops a... more
Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch, Claudia Cardinale. A beautiful young woman comes to the door of an elderly French couple as a refugee from war. The old man is a sculptor, and the young woman agrees to... more
One night, aging carny bumper car operator Felix (Philippe Torreton) had an unusual patron-the much younger Lola (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who rode over and over again alone. He developed a fixation... more
Beautiful if naive young Claire (Lou de Laage) caught the eye of all at her late father's Alpine hotel, a situation that her wicked and threatened stepmother Maud (Isabelle Huppert) sought to... more
Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere. Unconventional and sophisticated comedy about two men who try everything to satisfy an insatiable woman, only to lose her to a precocious 13-year-old boy. In French... more
For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp and they call for... more
Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly. As Hitler's reign comes to an end, a group of Nazi soldiers and supporters flee France to South America in a submarine and abduct a French doctor to... more
After her soul mate tragically dies, Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) struggles to rekindle her passion for life until she finds love and joy in the most unexpected of places... right in front of her eyes.
Five longtime partners in a Paris gambling dive saw a retirement opportunity come up-and it involved pooling their cash resources for a massive narcotics buy. It sounded sweet until one of them got... more
A double feature Blu-ray with both films directed by Philippe de Broca - On Guard (1997) The story is set in early 1700s. Lafardere is former street urchin who became a best friend of Duke of Nevers.... more
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives - which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith - abruptly disturbed.
Diane Kruger, Lea Seydoux. Revolution is in the air in France, and the royal court is abandoning Versailles. However, one loyal vassal refuses to leave her queens side. Thusly, she shares in Marie... more
Looking to chronicle the lives of the working poor, journalist Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) sought employment as a cleaning woman-and, like most of the region's most desperate, ferried across... more
In the wintry rural hinterlands near the eastern border, the body of a young woman is found in the snow. For the investigating magistrate (Alain Delon), the immediate focus is on the farm family from... more